It's the new year. Welcome to 2026. My year end hiatus is officially over and I'm back into action. As usual, I needed to rattle out a no...
Geographical Breakdown
Chateau De Villeneuve De Milhac
It's the 16th of December now and I should be settling into my year end hiatus, sitting back, reading books, watching Westerns and reflecting on...
Stowes Hill
No excuses today. I'm back in the studio doing some proper painting after Thursday's loosener. Rather than doing another local landscape, I went...
Steve Clarke
There's been too much other stuff going on lately for me to be able to do any painting since Saturday. One of those distractions was Scotland's...
How Do Mountains Hear?
It's that time of year when I need to start thinking about the next call for entries to portrait Artist Of The Year. And that means I need to come...
Then Came The Lawyers, Then Came The Rules
Someone in the village laid down a challenge. He asked if I could paint a portrait of his husband David in the style of Amedeo Modigliani. After...
Telegraph Sang A Song About The World Outside
OK, the hiatus is definitely over now. I only have three chess games left on the go, one of which is about to finish, so enough of my energy and...
A Trip To The National Portrait Gallery
I took the day off today to head to London and to potter around the National Portrait Gallery. It's all very well keeping busy in retirement,...
New Rising Sun
I’m back in action today after three days off. With the plan being to check out the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday, I really should be...
These Rivers Of Headlights, These Rivers Of Rain
I’ve been meaning to do a painting like this for a while, as there are a number of lines in Telegraph Road screaming out for something like this....
Lullaby For The Summer
I didn't use the soft pastels at all during September so thought I’d better get them out today. I picked a scene from Queendown Warren that's been...
Then Came The Churches, Then Came The Schools
Another watercolour today and, for the first time in ages, it's not posterised. After doing some YouTubing, I was in the mood to put down a...
Hear My Freedom
Yesterday was a cracking day for artists. There was that feeling of rain in the air, the sky was overcast and everything felt wet without actually...
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold, Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here they are together: See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold and Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer. I couldn't decide whether to have...
Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here's the other half of the diptych. The drawings on the back are Hear The Wind and Smell The Reindeer. This one was painted in parallel...
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold
And here we are at stage 2 of the big project. After I Am The Eye In The Sky was such a big success almost five years ago on a glass fridge shelf...
Temple of Saturn, Rome
Number two son just announced he's off with some mates to Bremen, Split and Rome so I'm using this as an excuse to get in some much needed...
Straight Ahead
A soft pastel painting today, the first in over a month. It seems I'm always a bit behind on stying in practice at everything but that's my fault...
Take You Me For A Sponge?
Something different today, a watercolour painting painted mainly using sponges. It's a view in Queendown Warren, chosen for the many layers of...
Alex
Let this be a warning to all of you out there. Fall asleep on my sofa and you're fair game for a portrait. This is my oldest son, Alex. He'd had a...